A reanalysis is presented of the wave conditions on the approaches to the port of Sines in the Portuguese continental coast. The main area of interest is south of Lisbon especially concentrated on the coastal environment on the approaches to the port of Sines. The same scheme was used for investigating the wave conditions in other locations of the Portuguese nearshore both in the Northern and Southern coasts. The initial boundary conditions are provided

A study of the wave propagation and of the consequences of the wave current interactions in the Tagus estuary is performed in the present work. Thus a couple of low tide and high tide subsequent situations, corresponding to an extreme energetic case, were considered. A Cartesian high-resolution SWAN grid was coupled to the wave prediction system developed in spherical coordinates. Using the ocean forcing this system provides the corresponding coastal

The influence of the wind field resolution in the accuracy of the wave predictions is studied using spectral numerical models in highly non-stationary situations. The main area of interest is the port of Sines, located in the Portuguese continental coastal environment south of Lisbon. An implementation of the MM5 atmospheric model was developed for the area of study, starting from a large area of the Atlantic Ocean and nesting successively with finer

The theoretical background of the wave-current interactions, including the transformation of the wave spectrum and breaking waves due to currents, are first presented in this work. In the next part of the work, experimental data resulted from studies performed in an offshore wave basin of the Danish Hydraulic Institute concerning the wave-current interactions were presented in parallel with some wave model simulations performed in similar conditions.

The present work presents a SWAN model (Simulating Waves Nearshore) implementation focused on the nearshore of the Black Sea Western coast. The global implementation of the SWAN model, previously calibrated for the entire Black Sea basin, is used as driver. A first area of medium resolution, that covers all the West coast of the sea, is nested into the global model. The wave observations made at the Gloria drilling unit, located in the central part

Estuaries are commonly characterized as coastal environments combining locally generated waves with waves that penetrate from offshore. The present work provides a study on the wave generation and propagation in the Tagus estuary that was carried out by performing simulations with numerical models. For this purpose, SWAN spectral phase averaging wave model was considered. Taking into account its particularities, this model is considered able to estimate

The last decades continuously increasing of the economical activities in the coastal environment of the Black Sea is obviously leading to the enhancement of the pollution risks due to accidental oil spillages. Starting from the fact that most accidents were generated by an inadequate forecast of the wave conditions, the aim of the present work is to develop a methodology based on spectral phase-averaging wave models able to predict the wave propagation

This paper describes the development of a wave prediction system for the west Iberian coast. The implemented wave prediction system is based on two state-of-the-art spectral wave models, WAM for the ocean area and SWAN for the nearshore. However. because of its extended geographical space the SWAN model will include some generation effects in the coarse SWAN simulations, complemented by wave transformation effects near the coast. The system was validated